Third Jeans Day Turns $5 Into Over $60,000

Some of the many Jeans Day 2013 event participants. This photo is
from IntelliDyne.

Jeans
Day 2013 engaged over 212 businesses; county agencies; public
school employees; civic, faith and community based organizations;
community leaders and individuals in its third annual awareness campaign
and fundraiser. Our goal was to partner with the Fairfax-Falls
Church community and raise $25,000 to meet the Philip L. Graham Fund
Challenge for a $25,000 match and together we did it! We raised
over $60,000!

These funds will ensure persons in the Fairfax-Falls Church community
are able to access appropriate affordable housing and services needed to
keep them in their homes. Specifically, this year's funds will support
the most vulnerable, those people who are chronically homeless,
through the 100,000 Homes
Campaign. The Fairfax-Falls
Church Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness has
joined this national movement of communities working together to find
permanent homes for 100,000 of the individuals and families who are most
the vulnerable and chronically homeless by July 2014. We will house 150
individuals over 3 years serving 50 each year.

This support is vital to ending homelessness in Fairfax County and Falls
Church. The contributions collected will make a difference for
the more than 3,000 children, women and men facing homelessness and the
threat of severe temperatures and hunger today in the Fairfax-Falls
Church community. We look forward to you joining us in our continued
efforts to end homelessness in our community by 2018 and our next
Jeans Day 2014.